Quotes Jean de la Bruyere

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman...

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thou...

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind think...

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were....

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a sm...

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many mas...

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a ...

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alon...

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone....

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the fo...

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are ...

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscien...

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference ...

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past ...

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy t...

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels...

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousan...

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to...

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk....

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, cha...

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy...

If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the...

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be...

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak wel...

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to...